Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-08-25

path, and serious trouble is unprecedented
The fact is made known that w. H.
Holcomb has resigned the position OF gen
eral superintendent of the Burlington &
Northern road.
1t is announced that James B. Davis,
superintendent OF the Ordnance foundry,
Washington navy yard. has been dismiss
ed, and that John A. Burton of Laurel,
Me- who has long been a mechanic in the
foundry, has been promoted to the vacancy.
The A%eronauts Mallet and Jovis made
al ascent in Paris, in the balloon Horla,
starting from the Lavillette Gas works,
It is presumed that their object is to pen
citrate to the greatest height at which Il il
possible to live. After a few hours, voy.
age in the air the balloon decended, land.
ing in the village Of Marche, Belgium. They
attained an altitude OF over 1000 metres,
n we're obliged to descend for want oil
ballast. The conditions were excellent,
except that NJ. Mallet tainted twice.
A body OF twenty-five to thirty masked
men rode into the town OF Leon, Iowa,
proceeded to the county Jail and tool out
James Reynolds, who crimihally assaulted
Mrs.,Noble near that place. The men
took him to a bridge just west OF town and
hung him over the railing. They knocked
the locks of five doors in order to get to
1 niint Anh hAttG ONLuiftGo v WV hOhIo
ia the work. Before hanging him the mob
tried to get him to confess to the deed, but
he feiused 20 say a word. They than put
the rope around his neck and pushed him
over the edge OF the bridge. In a few min
utes he was dead. The mob then quietly
rode away, leaving him hanging there.
Applications were received at the treas
ury department for the prepayment OF in
terest on registered bonds amounting to
Sl2. 494 600. The total amount Of bonds
on which advance interest is asked is now
$50,497, 200, OF which amount $37. 024,-
$50 are A per cents $12, 044, 400 AZ per
bonds. The gross amount of interest on
these bonds is about 81, 053.950.
The five juvenile Jesse Jameses who
skipped from Merrill, Wis, and were re.
ported captured at Stevens Point are still
at large, having escaped from the officers
and gone up the Wisconsin Central line.
One of the boys look advantage of the
lead body of his sister being in the house
to make his escape. They had only about
$50 in cash on which to make their raid
to California.
Acting Secretary Muldrow has approved
the selection of 50, sos acres of LAND made
by the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis q
Omaha road in Wisconsin. This does not
llCiiuc dul Vi Nbt lhnth llNOlNtN III t1t
indemnity question argued by ex-senator
Thurman aud Mr.. Button.
English railways have to bear the ouer.
Gus task in the way OF furnishing free
transportation to prominent individuals
and officials, as did the railroads in the
United States before the passage Of the
interstate bill. writes Crawford
from London to the New York World.
The trouble in Bell county, KY, is proba-
| bly, at an end, as Jack Turner, the last
Turner faction. has surrendered himself to
the jailor OF Bell county. lie surrendered,
and a man whose nam could not be learn
ed, charged with being an accomplish OF the
Turner's, surrendered himself to the author.
tiles. IL is reported that the Others of the
band have disbalded and left the state.
The United State circuit court holds
that exorbitant commissions on land con.
tracts are u%surious and Illegal.
James c. Flood. president OF the Nevada
bank. is i'll at his Menlo Park home. His
physicians do not state the exact nature
OF his ailment, but have recommended
change OF scene and climate. IL is expect.
ed that if able he will leave Tor Carlsbad,
Germany.
A dispatch from Madrid, asserts that
Gen. Salamania declines To fight a duel
VIII Nv OAANollfIANbN W "hOAh Nv "aN
challenged, and that the general viii start
Tor Cuba on the goth.
At Chicago. an application for ex-tradi-
ton papers for the return OF Boodler Nc
Carlyle is in process Of preparation by
States Attorney Grinnell, and viii be
completed within a few days. 1t viii be
sent to the governor OF the state, and by
him to the president at Washington.
The president has accepted the r~esigna-
ton OF LENT. Charles G. Tear, Twenty fifth
infantry, to take effect Jan.1 1883. Lieut..
Tear graduated from the military acade-
my several years ago and has been sta
toned at Fort Smelling ever since.
Interior department authorities are
coming to the conclusion that the detail
OF army officers for the care OF Yellowstone
Park is preferable to the employment OF
civilian superintendents, and ii is not I'M
likely that Secretary Lamar viii rS.ke a
recommendation to the coming cepgress
that for the present no further apprSpria-
ton Tor salaries for civilian superietend-
ents be made
Rain has fallen pretty generally all over
Minnesota and Dakota, delaying harvest
operations and causing some apprehen-
sions Of injury.
William II. Hughes, editor OF the Michi-
gan Catholic. publishes n letter severely
~condemning the press committee OF the
Army OF the Tennessee for inviting DIR. Nc
Glynn to address the coming reunion OF
that body in this city. He says the invit-
alton is an insult to the memory OF the
dead Catholic heroes of the army.
Lent. Gen. Sheridan, who has just re-
turned to Washington, has Under consi-
deration charges preferred by Col. Whip
pie, assistant adiutant general, stationed
at Governors Island, n. Y, against Col.
w. w. Burns, assistant commissary gen.
eral of subsistence, stationed at the same
post. The charge is for a personal
assault.
The United States treasurer having ac
eliminated a supply OF one and two-dol-
lar silver certificates sufficient to meet the
current heavy demand, has arranged for
the prompt delivery oil these notes to
banks, bankers and others making the re
quired deposit.
The Invitation to President and Mrs.
Cleveland to visit the Twin Cities of st.
Paul and Minneapolis, and other places
throughout the state, takes the form OF an
elaborate an beautiful book. IL is twelve
inches wide and fifteen inches long, and
bears the name OF the committee on paTch-
ment. TIL pages OF which there are six
teen, are OF watered silk. On the irontis.
piece is the INSCRIPTION: ITO say you are
welcome would be superfluous. '-Shaks-
Peare.
Omaha Bee: Prophet Foster OF Burling-
ton believes that the period from Aug. 81
to 2T covers a number of minor storm dis
turbances. He thinks September, like July,
will be very stormy, and the heaviest of
the storms will occur within three or four
days before or after TIE 10th. These heavy
storms are expected to effect Iowa. Mime.
sofa, Wisconsin and Illinois. The dates
within twenty-four hour OF which
the storms of September are expected to
cross the Mississippi are the I'd, 4th, StlI,
18th, 18th, 10Th and 25th. The storms Of
the 18th and 10Th are expected to be uu.
usually severe, and to he accompanied by
very warm weather. those Of the 18th and
Sth to be followed by cool waves.
Articles OF incorporation have been fled
Of the Austin Pressed Brick company,
capital 500. 900.
Bishop Ireland scouts any disafiection
between German and Irish Catholics.
Rain has fallen quite generally through
out Michigan during the week.
Mrs. Storey, widow OF the late Editor
Storey. of the Chicago Times, is painting a
portrait OF Storey for the house OF repre-
sentatives at Washington. Her fight over
the viii has cost her sci 900.
Tho drouth in this portion OF Ohio began
in the early part of June, and although it
has not been wholly unbroken it has been
practically so in nearly all OF Southern
Ohio.
Mrs. Lily Langtry bonght 400 gallons
of California wine and fifty gallons of
brandy when she was in California.
George Vandyke, the millionaire lumber
king OF New Hampshire, is only thirty-six,
and began his career when fourteen as n
wood chopper in his state.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was recently pre-.
sented with a dozen very heavy and beau
tiiully chased solid silver spoons inclosed
in n Russia leather case Incl with blue
satin, by the Roger Williams Lodge OF the
Sons OF st. George of New York.